AIBU to loathe 'Lizzie' & Nigel?

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Sorry to insert an AIBU here, but it seemed the right place! I've just had a nice rant about Helen, and it got me to thinking about the other Archers characters I can't stand.

Most of them, actually , but especially Lizzie'n'Nigel. Listening to them smugly congratulating themselves on Lower Poxley's Winter Wonderland made me feel quite nauseous.

Why are they so vile?

Nigel's quite sweet but Lizzie is the giddy limit. In the decades I've been listening she has freaked out over 'her' bedroom - which she no longer lived in being given to David and Ruth as their first marital home because they had nowhere else and freaked out about her inheritance - at least twice -and freaked out about many other things as well! She just isn't very nice.

I agree with NorthernLurker; Nige good Lizzie bad :)

I have never really 'got' this relationship, either, as Lizzie is often vile and poisonous
and Nigel sweet and wet.

I'm sure she married him for his money and she stays because he fails to see her flaws, and he doesn't think anyone else would fancy his enormous pile.

Surely it will be Will n Ed n Emmur n Nic. Again. No?

I was wondering the same as waswondering. Summat to do with Deck The Halls or the family New Year do. Nigel was checking insurance cover yesterday ... sounds ominous.

Nigel is an enormous echoing hole that should be filled with personality but isn't.

As much as I dislike Lizzie, at least she has a personality. Even if it is odious.

I hate EVERYONE in the Archers.

Except Lilian and Brian.

And Kate. Because she's a troublemaker.

Nigel is lovely - Lizzie is horrendous (can't think how the fragrant Jill produced such a foul daughter).

I was assuming that the major storyline would be about Helen's baby.

Elizabeth was so much more interesting when she was Ambridge's superbitch.

Snorbs, you are witty and insightful!

I only ever listen to the Archers at Xmas these days as there's always a hilarious scandal. So far nothing has topped Siobhan and Brian's improbably affair.

I do think Lizzie is hideous, not as funny as Linda Snell, but yes, interesting to listen to.

I think there might be a terrible fire at Lower Loxley during Deck the Halls ...

They are both vile. All the public school stuff is making me retch. Forcing their 10 year olds to do maths all Christmas so they don't have to slum it with the hoi polloi. Yeuchh.

Stacey I am with you about Lillian and Kate. Not sure about Brian though the philandering misogynist!

Having started this thread, I've been lurking.......enjoying the comments! Yes, I too always thought Nigel was marginally less appalling than 'Lizzie' (or 'Lizard' as they call her on the BBC Archers messageboard, much more appropriate!), but this stuff about the holiday coaching has changed my mind. He's such an utter, pompous twunt

Oh god, they are so very pleased with themselves! Barf

Yes to all of the above, but I agree that Deck the Halls sounds lovely and I really want to go.

Archers superbitch - Lizzie vs. Shula?

I vote for Shula. She coats her bitchiness with a layer of patronising moral superiority.

or
Lizzy's underlying heart condition leads to tragedy-combined with fire at LL combined with something terrible happening to Helen and bump..is that a big enough storyline? Cant wait!

Oh I really hope the big story is about Lower Loxley - I just don't want it to be Ednemmur and Will or Helen and the baby - they've been done to death.

And you know Ed - you shagged your Brother's wife - that is going to rankle a bit

I loathe the lot- apart from Lilian and Jazzer

I heard the other day that Jazzer's character was supposed to be an "irritant"

...I thought he was supposed to be a sort of Everybloke

[obviously-not-decent-enough-to-listen-to-the-Archers emoticon]

...oh and I sneakily admire Ruth with her relentless cheer

specially since the Guardian revealed that, in her time "off", she's a BBC news reporter and has been to Afghanistan about 600 times

...and somehow I always picture her as Gina McKee

Ruth is often on Woman's Hour doing features. Her and Sam were a real lowpoint.

Yes - I love Lilian and Brian best.